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SOF AND BG SOF COMINGAGNEW
C-K BROWN LR OVER
TEXAS NEWS SIGTexas Go nor Preston Smit today called on President
Nixon to stand firmly behind what Vice President Agnew
said in Dallas last night about the oil depletion tax
allowance. He said he trusted that the vice
president's words were not employed as rhetoric merely
to please a Texas audience. What Mr. Agnew said last
night, and again this morning at the airport, was that
both he and Mr. Nixon oppose reduction of the allowance
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,1".....27-1/2 PERCENT DEPLETION ALLOWANCE."
At the Republican fund-raising dinner in Dallas last
night, the vice president that the Democrats
were mainly responsible for House passage of an
amendment to cut the allowance to 20 percent. He
added, however, that the president could not dynamite
what he considered far-reaching tax reform because of
one section. Governor Smith said today it appeared
that the Nixon administration has been on both sides
of the fence on this question. He saidFILM TIME: 47 SECS
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Agnew], script, October 10, 1969, 10:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1223203/m1/1/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.